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Kraków
The horse-drawn carriages on the Main Market Square are one of Kraków's best-known sights: two-horse rigs wait at the rank and take passengers around the Old Town, most often towards Wawel. The service is run by many private operators, not…
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Szczyrk
The Dziewięćsił Festival is a spread-out celebration of two regions – the Beskids and Cieszyn Silesia – held simultaneously in nine towns and villages. Each location has its own programme: concerts, workshops, outdoor games, meetings and l…
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Giżycko
Five minutes' walk from Giżycko station is the town's largest yacht and passenger harbour. Ekomarina sits on the northern shore of Lake Niegocin, which covers more than 2,600 ha and is almost 40 metres deep, and has berths for 238 vessels.…
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Żarki
EtnoJura is a series of craft workshops run by Etno Pracownia in Żarki on the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland – on the studio's website the workshop gallery is titled "Warsztaty EtnoJury". Participants work with hay, wicker, wood and leather and…
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Lanckorona
Once a year, in December, Lanckorona turns into a town of angels. The winter festival Anioł w Miasteczku (Angel in the Town) is three days of events in many places at once: an Angel Christmas Market runs on the market square, while concert…
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Racibórz
The Upper Oder Festival is a three-day summer celebration of the Upper Oder Land – the western part of the Silesian Voivodeship – spread over dozens of places along the river and in nearby towns. In 2025 it drew 200,669 visitors, with a pr…
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Szczecin
The Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic Hall in Szczecin is the city's most famous modern building – a cluster of white, ice-like peaks that glows in changing colors after dark. Designed by the Barcelona studio Barozzi Veiga, it won the 2015…
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Jaworzno
In the walls of the former Sadowa Góra quarry in Jaworzno, quarrying exposed the bones of a nothosaur – a marine reptile from around 230 million years ago. On the quarry floor, a rippled stretch of Triassic seabed has survived, probably sh…
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Tarnowskie Góry
Gwarki (pronounced "GVAR-kee") is the annual town festival of Tarnowskie Góry ("tar-NOF-skyeh GOO-rih"), a former silver- and lead-mining town in Upper Silesia, southern Poland. Held every September since 1957, it celebrates the town's min…
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Nowy Zamek
Hubertówka (hoo-ber-TOOF-kah) in Nowy Zamek, near the town of Milicz in Lower Silesia, is a family-run restaurant serving game and freshwater fish, right beside the Milicz Fish Ponds in the Barycz Valley. Open since 1982, it is known for M…
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Świerklaniec
The Cavalry Hubertus in Świerklaniec is an autumn festival of foresters, hunters and riders held in the historic park of the former Donnersmarck residence. In 2024 it reached its 26th edition, organised by the municipality together with th…
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Gdańsk
St. Dominic's Fair in Gdańsk (Jarmark św. Dominika) is Poland's largest open-air trade and cultural festival: every summer, for more than three weeks, the streets of Gdańsk's historic Main Town fill with stalls, stages and food stands. Wit…
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Katowice
Jarmark na Nikiszu is a December craft market on Plac Wyzwolenia in Nikiszowiec, a historic mining estate in Katowice. It has been held since 2008 on the first weekend after Barbórka, the miners' feast of St Barbara, and draws on that trad…
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Katowice
The Katowice Christmas Market (Jarmark Bożonarodzeniowy, roughly "YAR-mark bo-zho-na-ro-dze-NYO-vih") transforms the Main Square of Katowice, the capital of Poland's Silesia region, into a glowing winter village of wooden stalls, Ferris wh…
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Żarki
Żarki in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland has one of the liveliest markets in the region. The town hall calls it an "open-air supermarket": every Saturday up to 10,000 customers come here, choosing from around 500 stalls on a 1.5-hectare squa…
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Podzamcze
Juromania is the festival of the Trail of the Eagles' Nests – a September event when the castles, caves, museums and small towns of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland fill with historical re-enactments, workshops, concerts and guided tours. One…
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Radzionków
The seasonal MOSiR outdoor pool complex in Radzionków lies in Księża Góra park, on a hill 357 m above sea level. It has three pools: a 50-metre sports pool, a shallower pool for non-swimmers and a paddling pool with three slides. It is a g…
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Tykocin
Kiermusy takes its name from a miller: in 1573 a townsman called Marys Kiermus took over a mill near Tykocin, and for years the settlement was known as Kiermus's Mill. Today a private complex in Old Polish style stands here on the Narew Ri…
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Karpacz
The Kopa chairlift in Karpacz, known locally as "Zbyszek," is the easiest way to get from town up into the high Karkonosze, the Polish side of the Giant Mountains. In about eight minutes it lifts you to just below the summit of Kopa (1,377…
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Wrocław
Kolejkowo in Wrocław (roughly koh-ley-KOH-voh, from the Polish word for model railway) is one of Poland's largest model railway layouts: a miniature Wrocław and Lower Silesia built at 1:25 scale, with moving trains, cars and thousands of t…
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Ruda Sułowska
The Colourful Carp Trail winds through the Barycz Valley, on the border of Lower Silesia and Greater Poland – a region famous for its 800-year tradition of carp farming. The route is marked by 30 three-dimensional carp figures painted by a…
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Brenna
"He who has sheep has all he wants" – that is the name of one of the workshops at the Goat Farmstead (Kozia Zagroda) in Brenna, and it sums the place up well. In the centre of the village, hosts Beata and Rafał have reconstructed a highlan…
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Kraków
In 1898 Antoni Mateczny was digging a well for his new house at the end of Kalwaryjska Street. Late in the day water with a strong, sulphurous smell gushed out – the workers were alarmed, but Mateczny, a regular visitor to Karlsbad, immedi…
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Zakopane
Horse-drawn sleighs, flaming torches in the dark and, at the end of the route, a bonfire, grilled sausages and highland music. The kulig is one of Poland's oldest winter pastimes, and in and around Zakopane plenty of local operators run th…